[LUNA] Oddball question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

What kind of PSU's are there for the RPi, I poked around a bit & 
couldn't find anything .... I don't care about a case & am up to my ears 
in CAT5 cables ....


On 08/23/14 15:36, Allen Krell wrote:
> Raspberry PI is great if you want something small.   It could do ntp, file
> serving, anything reasonable you want it to do.   The only drawback is
> making it neat looking.  By the time you buy a power supply, a case, and a
> CAT 5 cable to your router, you end up spending some money.   If you want
> to buy local, gigaparts has them in stock.
>
> I haven't looked in the past few years, but I had toyed with the idea of
> setting up my own NTP stratum server based off a GPS signal.  I couldn't
> find a low cost way a few years ago, there may be something newer now.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 12:02 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> .... I just got done upgrading my daily driver. I am going to re-purpose
>> the old one into a monowall box. However, the old one is also currently the
>> ntpd server for my LAN. I might be able to podge another box together to do
>> that job, assuming some apparently non-functional hardware is really just
>> playing possum, or .... I could drop <$40.00 on a Raspberry Pi B+ from
>> NewEgg & use that. it is running some sort of Linux, either directly
>> (Debian or arch images are available) or its own OS which I think is Linux
>> derived. I figure I should be able to get ntpd going, especially on the
>> Debian & use that box as an ntpd server for the network .... Whaddaya
>> think, good idea, all wet, something else .... TIA for advice &/or opinions
>> ....
>>
>>
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>>          William A. Mahaffey III
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	 ever devised by man."
                            -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.